SHEIKHUPURA: Two suspects involved in a gang-rape incident, who escaped from police custody a day earlier, killed by police in an alleged ‘encounter’ in the Farooqabad area of Sheikhupura district of Punjab province.
According to sources, the suspects opened fire on police when they were asked to stop at the Awan Bhattian police check post. During an exchange of fire between police and suspects, the suspects Junaid and Pervez killed on the spot, sources said.
A day earlier, two rape accused, who were arrested by the police in the Komal Masih rape case, escaped from custody. According to police, the suspects were being brought back from the crime scene when two of their accomplices attacked a police party near Eshar village of Sheikhpura.
Earlier, a 6-year-old girl was gang-raped and murdered allegedly with the connivance of her cousin in the Mohlanwal area of Lahore.
According to sources, the prime suspect Rizwan, the cousin of the victim Ayesha, and his alleged co-conspirator Allah Ditta took the minor to nearby fields where they sexually abused her and then murdered her.
On insistence by Allah Ditta, Rizwan abducted his cousin Ayesha and then after she was murdered, following her ghastly calamity meted out by two suspects, the suspects acted naïve and pretended to look for her with the grieving family, police said.
